The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe (Aziza's Secret Fairy Door, 287) - Softcover

Robb, Graham

 
9780330531511: The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe (Aziza's Secret Fairy Door, 287)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0330531514 ISBN 13: 9780330531511
Verlag: Picador, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths will change the way you see European civilization.

Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of science. His investigations gradually revealed something extraordinary: a lost map, of an empire constructed with precision and beauty across vast tracts of Europe. The map had been forgotten for almost two millennia and its implications were astonishing.

Minutely researched and rich in revelations, The Ancient Paths brings to life centuries of our distant history and reinterprets pre-Roman Europe. Told with all of Robb's grace and verve, it is a dazzling, unforgettable book.

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Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.

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'An ingenious and thoroughly gripping historical and archaeological bolt from the blue.'
New Statesman, Books of the Year 2013

When Graham Robb made plans to cycle the route of the legendary Via Heraklea, he had no idea that his journey would change his understanding of pre-Roman Europe. The ancient path he followed took him deep into the civilization of the Celts, where his discoveries were so extraordinary that he spent years trying to disprove them.

Grounded in astronomy, philology, archaeology and history - not to mention 15,000 miles on a bicycle - this book presents nothing less than a new wonder of the ancient world.

'The Romans did a good job of writing their predecessors out of history . . . As Robb makes clear, they told only part of the story.'
Observer

'The findings of Graham Robb, a biographer and historian, bring into question two millennia of thinking about Iron Age Britain and Europe.'
Daily Telegraph

'Remarkable . . . an overarching, wondrous reworking of history.'
Philip Hoare, Literary Review

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0330531514
ISBN 13 
9780330531511
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Anzahl der Seiten
416
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